Vladimir Pozner

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Vladimir Pozner (1950)

Vladimir Pozner (born January 5, 1905 in Paris , † February 19, 1992 ibid) was a French writer and screenwriter of Russian origin.

Life

Pozner studied in Leningrad and Paris. He initially worked as a journalist and translator. He began his writing activity with reports and novels, the plot of which was linked to war events and the Resistance . The so-called comic war was first processed in literary form in his novel Die Irrfahrt . During the Algerian War, he publicly sided with the Algerian side. Pozner also took a clear stand against fascism and against nuclear weapons in his works. In various essays , he tried to open up Russian literature for French readers ( Tolstoi est mort 1935, Souvenirs sur Gorki 1957).

In 1954 there was a collaboration between Pozner and Bertolt Brecht when both wrote an exposé for the planned film Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti in Berlin . Pozner created several script versions in which others also participated.

Works

  • Les Etats-désunis (1938), German The Ununified States , reports
  • Deuil en 24 heures (1942), German The Irrfahrt , novel
  • Les Gens du pays (1943), Ger. The Huber case
  • Le Lever du rideau (1961), German The Enchanted , novel
  • Le Lieu du supplice (1959), Ger. The place of execution , novellas
  • Mal de Lune (1974), German lunar disease , novel

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan O. Fischer (ed.), In German adaptation by Rita Schober (ed.): French literature at a glance . Reclam 1977, p. 359
  2. ↑ Jan Knopf (Ed.): Brecht Handbook . JBMetzler Stuttgart 2002, vol. 3 p. 472 f
  3. ↑ from it The Blue Coat, in French Narrators from Seven Decades. Volume 2. Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1983, etc.
personal data
SURNAME Pozner, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French novelist and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1992
Place of death Paris